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# Triunity
## English
### Noun

Triunity (uncountable)
* Alternative letter-case form of triunity
# ász
## Hungarian
### Etymology

From German As, from French as (“ace”), from Latin as (“a unit”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈaːs]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːs

### Noun

ász (plural ászok)
* (card games) ace (card with a single spot)
* (tennis, volleyball) ace (serve won without the opponent hitting the ball)
* (colloquial) ace (expert at something)
* ace (excellent military aircraft pilot)

#### Declension
### See also

* asz

### Further reading

* ász in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* ász in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
# mylkja
## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* mýkkje (Setesdal dialect)
* mylke
* mylja
* mjylka

### Etymology

From Old Norse mylkja.

### Verb

mylkja (present tense mylkjer, past tense mylkte, past participle mylkt, passive infinitive mylkjast, present participle mylkjande, imperative mylk)
* (transitive) To milk, express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).

## Old Norse
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Verb

mylkja
* to give milk

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: mylkja
* Faroese: mylkjast
* Norwegian Nynorsk: mylkja

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “mylkja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
# cellulifugal
## English
### Etymology

cellule +‎ -i- +‎ -fugal

### Adjective

cellulifugal (not comparable)
* (cytology, neurology) That carries nerve impulses away from a neuron.

#### Antonyms

* cellulipetal

#### Derived terms

* cellulifugally
# Ralston
## English
### Etymology

From the Old English personal name Rǣdwulf (“Ralph”) + -s- + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

### Proper noun

Ralston (countable and uncountable, plural Ralstons)
* (uncountable) A placename:
** A suburb of Paisley, Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS510246).
** A city in Carroll County, Iowa, United States.
** A city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States.
** A town in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, United States.
** A census-designated place in Park County, Wyoming, United States.
** A village (called a Crown village) in Cypress County, Alberta, Canada.
* (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

#### Derived terms

* Ralstonism
* ralstonite

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Translingual: Ralstonia

#### Statistics

* According to the 2010 United States Census, Ralston is the 2914th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 12302 individuals. Ralston is most common among White (90.6%) individuals.

### Further reading

* Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ralston”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

### Anagrams

* latrons, lontars, nostral
# emic
## English
### Etymology

Coined by American linguist Kenneth Pike in 1954 from phonemic.
* Kenneth Lee Pike (1982) Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics, page 44: “Generalizing from phonemics, I coined the term emic in 1954.”

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈiːmɪk/
* Rhymes: -iːmɪk
* Hyphenation: e‧mic

### Adjective

emic (comparative more emic, superlative most emic)
* (social sciences, anthropology) Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.
** 1996, Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for Substance Abuse Prevention:A useful example of the emic-etic distinction may be made by comparing the concept “waves on the ocean or sea” from the perspective of a European American with that of a Truk Islander […] The proposed etics here might be that both cultures understand the use of waves as vehicles for surfing and as movement reflecting the transfer of energy […] certain differences, or emics exist, for European Americans the waves may be sources of beauty — the Truk Islander has learned to use them […] as a road map.
** 2015, John P. Cooper, Dionisius A. Agius, Tom Collie, Faisal al-Naimi, “Boat and ship engravings at al-Zubārah, Qatar: the dāw exposed?”, in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies‎, volume 45: Papers from the forty-eighth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 25 to 27 July 2014 (2015), →ISSN, pages 35–47:In contemporary Anglophone usage, the term 'dhow' has come to refer generically and exonymically to traditional wooden vessels of the western Indian Ocean, whatever their particular forms or emic classification.

#### Coordinate terms

* etic

#### Derived terms

* emically
* emicness

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* ICEM, ICME, cemi, mice
# legionas
## Lithuanian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin legiō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [lʲɛɡʲɪˈjɔ̟nɐs]
* Hyphenation: le‧gio‧nas

### Noun

legiònas m (plural legiònai) stress pattern 2
* (military, Ancient Rome) legion (the major unit or division of the Roman army)
* (military) legion (military unit)
* (colloquial) legion (a large number of someone or something)

#### Derived terms

* legiònininkas

#### Related terms

* legioniẽrius

### Further reading

* “legionas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
* “legionas”, in Bendrinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of common Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, n.d.
* “legionas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025
* legionas (Ancient Rome) in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia)
* legionas in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia)
# legiono
## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto legio, Latin lēgiō, English legion, French légion, German Legion, Italian legione, Russian легио́н (legión), Spanish legión.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /le.ɡiˈo.no/, /leˈɡjo.no/

### Noun

legiono (plural legioni)
* legion
** 2010, Marion Kasper, “La kombato kontre Varus”, in Ido-Saluto!, number 3, page 15:Sua taktiko bone funcionis en Gallia. Il iris kun sua legioni aden la lando.His tactics worked well in Gaul. He went with his legions into the country.
* (figuratively) a multitude

## Lithuanian
### Noun

legiòno
* genitive singular of legiònas
# free radical
## English
### Noun

free radical (plural free radicals)
* (chemistry, physics) A molecule, ion or atom that has one or more unpaired electrons, and which is generally highly reactive (and therefore often occurs only as a transient species).
# Creator
## English
### Proper noun

the Creator
* (religion) A god who created the Universe; God.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 1:25:Who changed the trueth of God into a lye, and worshipped and serued the creature more then the Creatour, who is blessed for euer. Amen.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Carreto, Cerrato, acroter, reactor

## German
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English creator.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɹiˈ(ʔ)ɛɪ̯tɐ/, /kɹiˈjɛɪ̯tɐ/, /kɹɪ-/, /kʁi-/, /kʁɪ-/

### Noun

Creator m (strong, genitive Creators, plural Creator)
* (social media) creator, ellipsis of Content Creator.
* creator, chiefly of a (TV, book etc.) series or franchise

#### Declension
## Old French
### Alternative forms

* Creatour
* Criator

### Proper noun

Creator m (nominative singular Creators)
* the Creator; God

#### Synonyms

* le Seignor
* Deus

#### Descendants

* French: Créateur
* Norman: Créateu
# lagunom
## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

lagunom (Cyrillic spelling лагуном)
* instrumental singular of laguna
# barbaric
## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English barbarik, from Old French barbarique (“barbarous”), from Latin barbaricus, from Ancient Greek βαρβαρικός (barbarikós, “barbaric, savage, fierce”), from βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “barbarian”) +‎ -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). See βάρβαρος (bárbaros) for more.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪk/, /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbɛɹɪk/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

barbaric (comparative more barbaric, superlative most barbaric)
* of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilized, uncultured or uncouth
    Antonym: nonbarbaric
    a barbaric attack on a doctor in a hospital

#### Derived terms

* barbarically
* mixo-barbaric
* non-barbaric
* semibarbaric
# ἔρι
## Ancient Greek
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /é.ri/ → /ˈe.ri/ → /ˈe.ri/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /é.ri/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈe.ri/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈe.ri/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈe.ri/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈe.ri/
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### Noun

ἔρι • (éri)
* vocative singular of ἔρῐς (érĭs)
# nonbacterized
## English
### Adjective

nonbacterized (not comparable)
* Not bacterized.
# ἔρισι
## Ancient Greek
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /é.ri.si/ → /ˈe.ri.si/ → /ˈe.ri.si/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /é.ri.si/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈe.ri.si/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈe.ri.si/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈe.ri.si/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈe.ri.si/

### Noun

ἔρῐσῐ • (érĭsĭ)
* dative plural of ἔρῐς (érĭs)
# proclivity
## English
### Etymology

From Latin prōclīvitās, from prōclīvis (“prone to”).

### Pronunciation

* (weak vowel distinction) IPA: /pɹoʊˈklɪvɪti/
* (weak vowel merger) IPA: /pɹoʊˈklɪvəti/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪvɪti

### Noun

proclivity (plural proclivities)
* A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition or bent.
    Synonyms: penchant, propensity; see also Thesaurus:predilection
    The child has a proclivity for exaggeration.
** 1922 February, James Joyce, “[16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:This therefore was the reason why the still comparatively young though dissolute man who now addressed Stephen was spoken of by some with facetious proclivities as Lord John Corley.
** 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 10:The idea is that the choice of $x$ when facing the alternatives $\{x,y\}$ reveals a proclivity for choosing $x$ over $y$ that we should expect to see reflected in the individual's behavior when faced with the alternatives $\{x,y,z\}$.
** 2016 March 22, Emma Green, quoting Pastor Brown, “Where Is the Church in the Black Lives Matter Movement?”, in The Atlantic‎:The sermon that morning was ostensibly about healthy sexual relationships, but scathing critiques of capitalism and corporations also got significant airtime. (“I have leftist proclivities,” Brown explained.)
# 多渴症
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): duōkězhèng
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛ ㄎㄜˇ ㄓㄥˋ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: duōkězhèng
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛ ㄎㄜˇ ㄓㄥˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: duokějhèng
*** Wade–Giles: to$^1$-kʻo$^3$-chêng$^4$
*** Yale: dwō-kě-jèng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duokeejenq
*** Palladius: докэчжэн (dokɛčžɛn)
*** Sinological IPA : /tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹/

### Noun

多渴症
* polydipsia
# duōkězhèng
## Mandarin
### Romanization

duōkězhèng (Zhuyin ㄉㄨㄛ ㄎㄜˇ ㄓㄥˋ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 多渴症
# Anana
## Sranan Tongo
### Alternative forms

* Nana

### Etymology

Ellipsis of Anana Kedyaman Kedyanpon, possibly from Twi Akan [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈnana/, [a̠ˈna̠na̠], [ɑ̟ˈnɑ̟nɑ̟]

### Proper noun

Anana
* name of the creator god and supreme being of the Afro-Surinamese Winti belief system
* God, Creator (the single male god of the Abrahamic religions)
** 1978, “Di Krisneti Kisi”, in Kerstmis in Suriname, performed by Alberto en het gemengd koor "Gloria":Di Kresneti kisi, Nana ben seni en pikin / na ini a grontapu fu krin wi ala siki / A no ben kon leki wan kownu, ma leki wan mofinawan / na ini wan pina-oso, na ini na sabana / Kon meki wi begi, begi da Anana / Kon meki wi begi, begi da AnanaWhen Christmas occurred, God sent his son / into the world to cleanse all our illnesses / He didn't come as a king, but as a poor man/ into a hut in the desert / Come let us pray to the Creator / Come let us pray to the Creator
# 청소기
## Korean
### Etymology

Sino-Korean word from 淸掃機, from 淸掃 + 機.

### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [t͡ɕʰʌ̹ŋsʰo̞ɡi]
* Phonetic hangul: [청소기]

### Noun

청소기 • (cheongsogi) (hanja 淸掃機)
* vacuum cleaner, hoover
# wriststrap
## English
### Alternative forms

* wrist strap

### Etymology

From wrist +‎ strap.

### Noun

wriststrap (plural wriststraps)
* A strap worn around the wrist to circumvent straining the hand by translocating the borne load to the stronger parts of the arm when carrying or lifting an item.
    Hyponym: lifting strap
# buldozéry
## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbuldɔzeːri]

### Noun

buldozéry
* nominative/accusative plural of buldozér
# do away with
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Verb

do away with (third-person singular simple present does away with, present participle doing away with, simple past did away with, past participle done away with)
* (transitive, idiomatic, informal) To abolish; to put an end to; to eliminate.
** 1887, Mabel Collins, The Illuminated Way: A Guide to Newophytes, 1903 ed., Yogi publications, New Jersey, p. 35:
    For no nearness in space, no closeness of relations, no daily intimacy, can do away with the inexorable laws which give the adept his seclusion.
** 1922, Victor Appleton, chapter 7, in Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive:Using electricity as motive power for railroads will do away with fuel trains, tenders, coal handling, water, and all that.
** 1950 May, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 300:Centralised traffic control does away with intermediate operators over long stretches of line.
** 2008 September 30, “Editorial: British schools' move towards scrapping homework is a progressive idea”, in Times of India:In most countries, homework has come to be an integral part of the schooling system. So much so that parents are suspicious when schools do away with homework.
* (transitive, idiomatic, informal, euphemistic) To have someone killed.
** 1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:[…] unless we can begin to understand that the vast majority of those who do away with themselves—and of those who attempt to do so—do not do it because of any frailty, and rarely out of impulse, but because they are in the grip of an illness that causes almost unimaginable pain.

#### Translations
### See also

* get rid of
* fordo
# douloir
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French doloir, from Latin dolēre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /du.lwaʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -waʁ

### Verb

douloir
* (obsolete, archaic, reflexive) to suffer
** Et je me deux d’être tout seulAnd I suffer for I'm alone(Guillaume Apollinaire)
** Quand je me deuxWhen I suffer(Valérie Rouzeau)

#### Related terms

* deuil
* douiller
* douleur

### Further reading

* “douloir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Old French
### Verb

douloir
* alternative infinitive of doloir

#### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a distinct stressed present stem, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
# reaper
## English
### Pronunciation

* (American English) IPA: /ˈɹiːpɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːpə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap +‎ -er.

#### Noun

reaper (plural reapers)
* One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
** 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields.
* A machine used to harvest crops.
* (often capitalized) Ellipsis of Grim Reaper.
** 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 31:Thereafter when their cups were brimmed anew with foaming wine the Red Foliot spake among them and said, “O ye lords of Witchland, will you that I speak a dirge in honour of Gorice the King that the dark reaper hath this day gathered?”
** 1976, Buck Dharma (lyrics and music), “Don't Fear the Reaper”, performed by Blue Öyster Cult:Don't fear the Reaper / We'll be able to fly
** 1999, Karl S. Guthke, The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature, page 7:Why is the Grim Reaper a man? True, the noun ending would theoretically allow us to visualize the reaper as a woman as well, but we don't.
** 2014, “Graveyard Shift”, performed by The Acacia Strain:She told me she wanted to meet the reaper I had only done her a favor She didn't deserve to die But I deserved to kill her
* A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

##### Derived terms

* Grim Reaper
* Norwood reaper
* reaper-binder
* reaper-thresher

##### Related terms

* reap

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

reaper (plural reapers)
* (India, obsolete) Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.

##### References

* Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “reaper”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

### Anagrams

* Pearre, Perera, rerape
# close down
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kləʊzˈdaʊn/
* (US, Canada) IPA: /kloʊzˈdaʊn/
* (General Australian) IPA: /kləʉzˈdæɔn/

### Verb

close down (third-person singular simple present closes down, present participle closing down, simple past and past participle closed down)
* (transitive, intransitive) To stop trading as a business.
    Synonyms: close one's doors, close up, shut down, shutter, shut up
    The local factory will close down soon, unless sales pick up.
    They had to close the mine down as it was in a dangerous condition.
** 2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “Productivity should play no part in pay negotiations”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46:Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.
* (transitive) To surround someone, as to impede their movement.
    Synonym: shut down
    If anyone passes to Smith, close him down.

#### Derived terms

* closedown (noun)

#### Related terms

* close out
# falsakeen
## Yola
### Etymology

Borrowed from Irish *fallásaichín, unattested diminutive of fallásach (“fallacious”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /falsaˈkiːn/

### Noun

falsakeen
* An unprincipled character, a false person.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 39
# exponentiality
## English
### Etymology

From exponential +‎ -ity.

### Noun

exponentiality (countable and uncountable, plural exponentialities)
* (uncountable) The condition of being exponential.
* (countable) The degree to which something is exponential.

#### Derived terms

* nonexponentiality
* subexponentiality
# hypogamy
## English
### Etymology

From hypo- +‎ -gamy.

### Noun

hypogamy (uncountable)
* The seeking of a spouse of lower socioeconomic status or caste than oneself.
** 1972 August 27, Sheila K. Johnson, “A woman anthropologist offers a solution to the woman problem”, in The New York Times‎:The reverse (hypogamy) is rare because with marriage a woman and her future offspring take on the social position of the husband, and so an upper‐class woman marrying a lower‐class man reduces her position as well as that of her children.
** 1988 July 11, Seth Mydans, “Singapore Journal; How to Marry Up, and Avoid the Frogs and Nerds”, in The New York Times‎:Men like Mr. Lim, according to Government officials, often end up marrying "downward" - hypogamy - after they fail to win a woman of their own educational level.

#### Synonyms

* marrying down (colloquial expression)

#### Antonyms

* hypergamy

#### Related terms

* hypogamic
* hypogamical
* hypogamically
* hypogamist
* hypogamous
* hypogamously
# 點茶
## Chinese

* 點茶

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): diǎnchá
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄔㄚˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): dim$^2$ caa$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: diǎnchá
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄢˇ ㄔㄚˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: diǎnchá
*** Wade–Giles: tien$^3$-chʻa$^2$
*** Yale: dyǎn-chá
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: deanchar
*** Palladius: дяньча (djanʹča)
*** Sinological IPA : /ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰä³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: dim$^2$ caa$^4$
*** Yale: dím chàh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dim$^2$ tsaa$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dim$^2$ ca$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /tiːm³⁵ t͡sʰaː²¹/

### Verb

點⫽茶 (verb-object) (intransitive)
* Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 點 / 点 (diǎn),‎ 茶 (chá).
* dian cha, a method of preparing and drinking powdered tea, popular in the Song dynasty

#### Descendants

* → Vietnamese: điểm trà (點茶)
# exposition
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English exposicioun, from Old French esposicion, from Latin expositiō, from expōnere (“to put forth”). The sense meaning "exhibition" is a later semantic loan from French exposition.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛkspəˈzɪʃən/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

exposition (countable and uncountable, plural expositions)
* The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
* (authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing, in nonfiction or in fiction; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe or explain a set of things (such as, in fiction, the setting, characters and other non-plot elements).
    Hypernym: explanation
    This essay has too much exposition in it.
    My reviewer said she couldn't picture the setting for my story, so I'm improving the exposition.
* (obsolete) The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place.
* An exhibition, especially of goods, artwork or cultural displays to the public.
    The first prototype was unveiled at an exposition.
* (authorship) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
    Coordinate terms: disquisition, dissertation, treatise
    I turned my research into an exposition on the traditional music of Borneo.
* (authorship) An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.
* (music) The opening section of a movement in sonata form; the opening section of a fugue.
* The abandonment of an unwanted child.

#### Derived terms

* counterexposition
* exposé
* expositional
* expositionary
* misexposition
* sexposition

#### Related terms

* exposit
* expositive
* expository

#### Translations

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#### See also

* explanation
* exegesis

### References

* ↑ “exposition, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2022.

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French esposicion, borrowed from Latin expositiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛk.spo.zi.sjɔ̃/
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### Noun

exposition f (plural expositions)
* exposition
* exhibition
* exposure

### Further reading

* “exposition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.